Android youtube in webview

Question

I have using Webview to display some html data in my app. I am using the following code.

WebView featureview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.featureview);
WebSettings webSettings = featureview.getSettings(); 
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 
featureview.loadData(featureDescription, "text/html", "utf-8");

Some of the html data has embedded video from youtube using code like <iframe height='390' frameborder='0' width='640' allowfullscreen='' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/8xgkw67o0Gc' title='YouTube video player'></iframe>. But it is giving black screen. what is the problem in code? Here I like to add I have installed the flash player and I am trying in in Android 2.2 device.

Check out my answer over here http://stackoverflow.com/a/24592012/2371425 — Sakiboy, Jul 28 '14 at 03:44

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '12 at 06:37

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Try:

webView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);

Or the non-deprecated equivalent:

webview.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);

answered Oct 23 '12 at 06:37

Aelexe

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This worked for me. @dev-android should try this and accept the answer if it solves the problem. – George Armhold Dec 07 '12 at 15:38
This doesn't work for most cases. Check out my answer over here:http://stackoverflow.com/a/24592012/2371425 – Sakiboy Jul 28 '14 at 03:43
`setPluginState` is now deprecated too. – sjain Oct 07 '14 at 14:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '11 at 07:25

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Enable javascript

 myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview); 
 WebSettings webSettings = myWebView.getSettings(); 
 webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 
 myWebView.loadUrl("http://www.youtube.com");

see this links

http://www.anddev.org/novice-tutorials-f8/play-youtube-videos-with-youtube-app-from-webview-t50422.html

answered Jul 29 '11 at 07:25

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I don't want to open any youtube url, I just want to open a play which is embedded in html content. However I have added setJavaScriptEnabled , but it is giving same result. – dev_android Jul 29 '11 at 09:35

Android youtube in webview

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